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Danny_Arroyo
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Nov 10, 2014

My F5 has a corrupt boot partition and wont boot. How can I switch boot partitions?

I have an F5 bigip running v10.2.x. It is in an HA pair. We purchased a new F5 that is running v11.4.2 and have moved all of our Vips to this new F5 (Also an HA pair). I wanted to use the old F5 i...
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Nov 10, 2014

If you have another good volume on the system to boot back into from the bash prompt enter switchboot and the menu will let you select the volume you want to boot into

 

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    Danny_Arroyo
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    Nov 10, 2014
    I do have the original boot partition but, how would I get to the bash prompt if the F5 does not boot and I cant get to it via ssh? Are you suggesting that I use the USB method that Mimlo recommended, and then try the switchboot command?